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Goo-oo-od evening, good evening, good evening, good evening,

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good evening, good evening, and welcome to QI,

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where tonight we're looking at everything in the kitchen

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but the sink.

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Joining me at the breakfast bar, cooking with gas, Jason Manford.

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Sharp as a knife, Victoria Wood.

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Pointless as a spoon, Richard Osman.

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Hiya.

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And I got this fork off Alan Davies.

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Let's hear your pingers. Jason goes...

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BEEP-BEEP-BEEP

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And Victoria goes...

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TICK-TICK-TICK DING!

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Richard goes...

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DRING!

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And Alan goes...

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EXPLOSION AND ALARM

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We're having a kitchen supper tonight.

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Which of the following do you fancy?

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Take me through these... lovely dishes.

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They're all real.

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Is the buttocktongue Marks & Spencer's buttocktongue?

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It's "your" buttocktongue.

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-Oh, right.

-Yes, exactly.

-Lovely.

-Work on tongue.

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Well, I'll have to be careful when I say that...

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if you just take the last three letters off tongue, you get?

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Oh, so like, like a biltong?

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Biltong is right.

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It's a hindquarters tongue, which sounds weird, but that's what it is.

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-Biltong, have you ever had biltong?

-No, I'm a vegetarian.

-Ah.

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Meet Alan.

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He's a vegetarian, too.

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-Hold on, is biltong not vegetarian?

-No!

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So what is it? The bottom?

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It's dried - well, it's the dried hindquarters.

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So, does it have the actual...?

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The hindquarters, which are buttocks on an animal.

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But does it have the arsehole in it?

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-Not the...

-LAUGHTER

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-I think not.

-That's in hot dogs, I think.

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-Has it got a tube?

-Yeah, that's in...

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-They save that for hot dogs and pork pies.

-Yeah.

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So, that's a good one. You've started.

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-Any other thoughts?

-Kleftiko, that's...

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That's on a menu in a Greek restaurant, isn't it?

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Yes, kleftiko, exactly, does exist.

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And it was originally called "kleptiko",

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which might give you a hint.

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Klept.

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-Kleptomaniac?

-It's all stolen.

-Kleptomania, kleptos is a thief.

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And it was anti-Ottoman empire bandits who lived in the hills,

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and they made up this dish,

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so it was named after them, it's a thieves' dish.

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It's quite elaborate for a bandit person to be doing.

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They were - you should see their souffles. They were extraordinary.

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Actually souffles brings us onto nun's farts.

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Well, it's - when you pop one...

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Why specifically a nun's, though? I mean...

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Cos nun's farts smell like souffle. Keep up!

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He's just given you that,

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-when he gives you one, for goodness' sake, grab it.

-Yes, take notice.

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A lot of French dishes have - or, indeed, European dishes -

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have their - pumpernickel is a devil's fart, "pumpen", pump, fart,

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"nickel", Old Nick. And that's a bread, so they have rude names.

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And there's a - isn't there a cheese which is, er,

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angel's tits or something like that?

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-You can tell which ones are farting from their pained expressions.

-Yeah.

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That's like the cast of Dad's Army on a...

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-fancy dress party.

-I think out of them all there, I'd go, I'd say...

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-Which one?

-She's definitely... She's definitely farted,

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and the rest don't know yet.

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Look at the smile.

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Look at the smile on her face.

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That's a massive board and they all just put their faces through.

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-Like on a pier.

-Yeah.

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Nun's farts are little balls of pastry deep-fried, and they puff up.

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They're also called whore's farts or Spanish farts,

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in French, "pets-de-nonne".

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"Pets" is "fart" in French.

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These days they've disappointingly been renamed as nun's puffs.

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Or possibly poofs, I don't know how you would say it, it's hard to tell.

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-Bishops, often, they're called that.

-Bishops, yes, exactly.

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Treacle. Treacle. Anti-venereal treacle?

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Wouldn't want to lick it off.

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You're right.

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It sold much better than pro-venereal treacle, didn't it?

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-That didn't...

-Yes!

-That didn't sell.

-It really didn't.

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-Yeah, they really...

-The two great treacles.

-Yeah.

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The word treacle has had an interesting history.

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It now means, of course...

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Yeah, it used to mean any sort of medicine, didn't it?

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Or any sort of...

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Even without a computer in front of you, you're good.

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That is very - or have you got one hidden under there?

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No, I'm very impressed, you're absolutely right.

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A treacle was generally any kind of specific

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-against diseases and things.

-Or a term of endearment, weirdly.

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"Treacle," yes, in EastEnders and that sort of thing, isn't it?

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-"All right, Treacle?"

-"All right, anti-venereal treacle?"

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That's what they call some of those characters.

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Auntie Venereal Treacle.

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Yes.

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"It's your Auntie Venereal, Treacle."

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"You come in for your tea, Chlamydia."

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Where was it...? There was - in America,

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-Verruca's quite a popular name.

-Really?!

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-People copy it from...

-BOTH: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

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They don't know - they don't call verrucas "verrucas" in America.

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-So they don't know it's actually...

-They don't know it's an awful thing.

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-Verruca Salt.

-Yeah.

-Brilliant. I'm so pleased.

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-So if they don't call chlamydia "chlamydia"...

-Yes...

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All you need to do is put it in a popular children's book as a name...

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-Brilliant.

-Before you know it...

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It would be one of the most popular names.

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-Barack Obama will have a daughter called Chlamydia.

-Called Chlamydia!

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Chlamydia Obama.

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Which brings us to Dog and Maggot.

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-Does it?

-Well, it doesn't necessarily.

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It sounds like rhyming slang for...

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-someone of my persuasion.

-Taggart.

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Oh...

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-I was going to go with the ITV show Taggart.

-Oh, right.

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"There's been a murder, Dog and Maggot."

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-A Scotsman in the mist. See what I did there?

-Yeah.

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If I was to say "hard tack" to you, does that mean anything?

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Ship's biscuits?

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Very good. Ship's biscuits were known as hard tack.

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And there's a famous scene in the Battleship Potemkin,

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do you remember? If you've ever seen it.

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-No, I'm a vegetarian.

-The great Eisenstein movie...

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LAUGHTER

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That's going to be an answer to a lot of questions, isn't it?

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"No, I'm a vegetarian."

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The Potemkin was a ship in which there was a mutiny,

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and there's a scene of them cracking open a ship's biscuit

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-and the maggots... it's really horrible.

-Eurgh.

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And this is a British biscuit

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called "Dog" because it was the consistency of a dog biscuit

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and "Maggot" because it had maggots in it,

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but it was - in the First World War it was part of the rations.

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God. I think I'd rather eat the cutlery.

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-I think you're right.

-If that choice came up.

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I'll just have a chew on this knife, don't worry about it.

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You know what I think I'd like with a fork?

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Rather than having all the prongs in a line,

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why can't they be in a kind of a square shape,

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so you've got a kind of...

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-Do you know, hold that thought.

-That's a good idea.

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-Because we might be coming on to that later in the exam.

-Really?

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-Wow.

-Yes.

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It might come up.

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"Sir said it wouldn't come up this term, but it might have come up."

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-I'll revise that.

-Yeah.

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Anyway, there you are. Here's some unusual cutlery.

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I'd like you to tell me what kind of thing you could eat with them.

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You've all got some,

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but I'll start off with the one that you mentioned, there.

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-You said with tines, that were...

-You just invented that, a minute ago.

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There you are. Isn't it incredible?

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-You mentioned something like it.

-That's weird.

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Isn't it? It's usage is very, very specific.

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You don't actually handle it yourself,

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because you're so high-born that somebody else feeds you using that.

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With what on it, though?

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-Some sort of fruit?

-No.

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Is it a testicle?

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It might include a testicle.

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Is it a scrotum?

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It might include a scrotum.

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What else really includes a testicle, Stephen?

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The whole schmear.

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A-A whole mammal.

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Yes, a whole mammal. Let's just imagine I'm talking to one.

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-Oh, God.

-A comedian.

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No, a cannibal. That's the point, a human being.

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-Oh, human.

-Oh...

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Yours is a reproduction, sold as a souvenir item on the island of?

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-Or islands of?

-Wight.

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Man.

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LAUGHTER

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More accurate if you'd said the Isle of Man, I would have thought.

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-Oh, yeah.

-Think of the... cannibal island,

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-it was part of the British Empire.

-Oh, Guernsey.

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-Fiji.

-Fiji.

-Fiji.

-Oh, I might have known.

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Yeah, you might have done. Fiji is the answer.

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These are Fijian human forks.

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-Two cannibals are eating someone...

-Yes?

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..and one says, "you start at the toes, I'll start at the head."

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He says, "All right." Halfway through he says, "You all right?"

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He says, "Yeah, I'm having a ball."

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He says, "You're going too fast."

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-There you go.

-Excellent work.

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-There you go.

-Excellent work.

-Old cannibal joke for you.

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So there you are. And what have you got, Victoria?

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-This, which is a strange...

-Very hard. If you guess that...

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-A spoon with holes in it.

-I'll give you 100 points

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if you guess what that is specifically for.

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Oh, it's for Coco Pops so you get the milk at the bottom...

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-chocolaty.

-It would work as that.

-It would.

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It's actually very specifically for terrapins and turtles.

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I don't usually eat them.

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-You're a vegetarian. I know.

-Exactly.

-Oh, I see.

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-The flesh is delicious, apparently.

-Oh, OK.

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-The giant turtle, famously...

-Aren't they protected, Stephen?

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You're not supposed to be chomping away on them.

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Oh, gosh, no, absolutely not. No, the Ridleys and all those...

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-Well, why are you saying we should kill them and eat them?

-No!

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Why are you giving me cutlery to damage terrapins?

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-You said that.

-We used to.

-Weird thing to say on television,

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-that we should eat turtles.

-I take it back.

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-We shouldn't be killing them.

-But they're delicious.

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There is a special piece of cutlery for them.

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-And apparently they're delicious.

-We have some cutlery for them,

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-and they're delicious.

-Just in case.

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And Jason what have you got?

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Ahem...

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Ooh. Now this is interesting.

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Don't look at your reflection in it, that'll only upset you.

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I was seeing if that's what was unusual.

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-No.

-Oh, my God, it's Tom Selleck.

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That's weird, isn't it? Of all the people.

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Have a grip and a twist.

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-OK. Oh!

-Ah.

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It turns, it turns like that.

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-Yeah.

-Is it supposed to...?

-All the way.

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Oh, all the way, OK.

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Oh, and then it just becomes, like...

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-It's broken.

-It's...

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-It's a breakable spoon!

-Brilliant.

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No, but look in the spoon end. The ladle end.

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-It's hollow.

-Yeah. Oh, inside there.

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So you could fill it with something.

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-A message.

-Hot water?

-Hot water.

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Oh, I was going to say turtle blood.

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-Oh, I see.

-You fill it with hot water and it's a gravy spoon

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that keeps the gravy nice and warm to stop the fat congealing.

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-Oh, I like that.

-Richard?

-Great idea.

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Are we going to have anything that you can eat testicles with?

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-They may be coming up.

-Eat them with that.

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-Here we go, here we go.

-Yes, now what's that?

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-Are they holes, in the end?

-Ah!

-Yeah, it's got all perforations.

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-You see, you've learnt from your thing.

-Yes.

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There are perforations in the ladle itself

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and the spoon part itself, the bowl. What about the other end?

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-It's got a little hole in it.

-Ah. So what could you do?

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-Well...

-You could hang it...

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-I'm going to insert it into the...

-Cheese.

-..backside of a turtle.

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Just there. Literally just there.

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And then, I think, you tell me if I'm wrong,

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you squeeze, is that right?

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Squeeze down on the shell.

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And out it comes, and then you've essentially got yourself a smoothie

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which comes out of the end.

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Is it a turtle blood smoothie maker?

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It's so close.

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If I said the word "mate" to you, would that mean anything?

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Have you ever travelled to an area where you drink mate tea?

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-Audience?

-AUDIENCE MEMBER: Argentina.

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-Argentina and Peru, and various other places.

-Of course.

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-It's called mate.

-There we go. We've got that sorted.

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So, basically, it does a marvellous job.

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It stirs the leaves

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and allows you to drink the tea all in one without needing a strainer.

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Oh, it's a straw.

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-It's a straw, you suck it up.

-Ah, that's so good.

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It's an Argentinian mate spoon.

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Now, what's the quickest way to cool down my kitchen?

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I'm going to - just because I'd love to get a klaxon sound,

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-is it opening the fridge?

-Ah!

-KLAXON

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-That would make it hotter.

-Somehow that makes it hotter, doesn't it?

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-Turning on the oven.

-Turning on the oven would not cool...

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-Turning on the top of the stove. Put the gas on.

-Right.

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Because the coolest place in front of a fire is right in front.

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Oh, I see what you mean, but that would still warm up the room.

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-Yeah, all right, it's just a thought.

-No, don't...

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Don't be cross, it's good you didn't say turn on the fan,

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-which would have got you a klaxon.

-I wasn't going to say that.

-Exactly.

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Can I just say, turn on the fan?

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-Oh, you've gone klaxon mad!

-KLAXON

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-It is...

-Why - so why would opening the fridge...?

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It's the second law of thermodynamics.

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The energy you need to create the coolness creates work.

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And energy and work are basically congruent, in physics, to heat.

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And so the back of a fridge...

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But what if the motor of my fridge is outside my...

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-I'm thinking exactly that.

-Ah, if that were the case, yes.

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-Cos you haven't been to my kitchen.

-No!

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-I said my kitchen, though, that was in the question.

-I'm so sorry.

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We had it covered.

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In the case of an air conditioner, of course,

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the back is always outside.

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-So a fan that is just cooling the air...

-Yeah,

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the motor of the fan warms the room.

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And what's up with them windows? Do they not open?

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Well, that would be a good answer. Exactly.

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What about opening the windows?!

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-Yes, that's fine, you might get a point for that.

-Yes!

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-Why's it so hot in your kitchen?

-I know.

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What have you been doing?

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Cooking.

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What protected species have you been slaughtering in your kitchen?

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Boiling terrapins by the dozen.

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"Open a window, Stephen!"

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"No, I like it hot and sweaty!"

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Scraping the froth off.

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Oh, don't!

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Where's my mate spoon?

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Anyway, let's move on.

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if you leave the fridge door open, the room will actually get warmer.

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Which breed of dog makes the best kebab?

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You need one with an opposable digit to make any kind of sandwich.

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Hey, very good!

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What about a sheep dog?

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-KLAXON

-Whoa.

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I was going to say sausage dog, so I'm glad I went for that.

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KLAXON

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Oh, dear, oh, dear.

0:14:340:14:36

Yeah, what about a kebab dog?

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There isn't such a dog, fortunately.

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There's a shop near me, there's a takeaway near me called Kebabish.

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And I like it, because it sort of sounds like the guy who owns it,

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even he doesn't know what's in the meat.

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"What is it?"

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"I don't know, it's just kebabish, it's just like a kebab."

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Funny you should say that,

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because doner kebabs have come under scrutiny lately.

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The average doner has 1,000 calories,

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-half a woman's recommended daily allowance.

-Wow.

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Even a woman called Donna.

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Even a woman called Donna, in fact.

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The worst have almost 2,000 calories.

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An average has 98% of the recommended daily allowance of salt,

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and 148% of the recommended daily allowance of saturated fat.

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I know reading those out is supposed to put us off,

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but I could kill for one now.

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It did sound - all the stuff about saturated fat sounded delicious.

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-Oh, yes.

-It did, didn't it?

-That just sounds like a bargain,

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if you're getting 98% of your salt,

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means you don't have to get it anywhere else, do you?

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APPLAUSE

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It's called a doner kebab - I mean, because it's Turkish for a spit,

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generally, a going-round thing, a rotisserie.

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Because the standard kebab is, like, on a skewer, isn't it?

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-A shish.

-A shish.

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And I never knew you could pull them off the skewer before you ate them,

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when I was a boy, I was going to go like that,

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and then I'd go, "Argh..."

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And then I saw someone just pulling them all off. Exactly!

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Ow!

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-That's how the Queen eats them.

-Yeah, I'm sure she does.

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So, do you have dogs?

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No, I don't like things that don't talk.

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You don't like things that...? I love that rule.

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I don't like things that don't make jokes.

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That's a really good rule.

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It excludes some men, obviously.

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Yeah, I was going to say, some men as well.

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Because we are literally speaking about a breed of dog

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that has since gone out of existence.

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It's no longer bred and it's become extinct as a breed.

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But it used - but it used to talk?

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No, no, sorry. We're conflating, unfortunately, here.

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It was a spit dog, a turnspit dog.

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It was actually bred...

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-Spit the Dog.

-There is one.

-Oh, Spit the Dog!

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-It's a really cute...

-Bob Carolgees...

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It's a cute breed, look at it. Isn't it cute?

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-It's not cute, it's weird.

-No, it's not, it's horrible.

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-It's like a Star Wars dog.

-Oh, I think it looks lovely.

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It's - this is a stuffed one in Abergavenny museum, I ought to say.

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-The taxidermist has bollocksed that right up.

-Well...

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-The head's wrong.

-It's stuffed with feta and vine leaves.

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Their job was to walk round

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keeping the roast meat on a spit evenly cooked.

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They were actually bred for that job.

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They were inside a wheel and they turned the wheel.

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Like a hamster in a Ferris wheel.

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And it worked beautifully well.

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And on their day off they would get taken to church

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and used as foot warmers.

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That was the life of...

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It sounds like they went into extinction through choice.

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-"I've had enough of this. Come on, lads."

-Yes.

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And Queen Victoria kept retired ones as pets.

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She actually liked them rather a lot.

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-It's a nice thought, isn't it?

-It looks sad.

-Yeah.

-Well, yeah.

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-It is dead.

-Because the box is too small.

-Yes!

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There were, in 1765, estimated to be 3,000 turnspit dogs in Bath alone.

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Not everyone liked them.

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William Cotesworth of Gateshead

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wrote that he had got rid of his turnspit,

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"To keep the dog from the fire, the wheel out of the way

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"and the dog prevented from shitting upon everything it could."

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That's the problem, you don't want poo.

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That's northerners for you, though.

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Well, that's your answer.

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Turnspit dogs. They got hot during the working week

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and on Sunday were used as foot warmers.

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Now, when Koreans went into space, what did they take to chow down on?

0:18:090:18:15

-You've got a bowl, Victoria...

-I've got a bowl?

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..and you can eat some.

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-Phwoar, blimey!

-It is quite a strong smell.

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-Oh, you really can.

-It really is.

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-They took that into space?

-Yeah.

-Was that to get rid of it?

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It is a bit smelly, it's actually delicious.

0:18:250:18:27

-Let's hope there's pudding.

-Korean astronaut food?

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Well, they developed a special breed of it for astronauts.

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I think it's got cabbage in it.

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It has, it's mostly cabbage.

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It's almost like a kind of sauerkraut.

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Sorry, I dropped my chopsticks.

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You can't drop anything in space.

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You merely release.

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The point about this food is that it is generally reckoned

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that this food is more celebrated and loved by the Koreans

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than any food in any other culture is loved by any other culture.

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It is absolutely their identity.

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They've not... They've not had a pie in the north.

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No, well, believe me, they talk about this food

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far more even than northerners talk about pies.

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In Wigan, you know, on the back of bakers' vans

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they've got a sign that says, "No pies are left in this van overnight."

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It's true, that.

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That's how important they are.

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That is very good.

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But if you can name this food, I'd be very impressed,

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because it really is the essence of Korea.

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They really are obsessed with it.

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-Have you ever heard of it?

-No.

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-It begins with K, which is a help.

-AUDIENCE: Kimchi.

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Kimchi is the right answer, from the audience. K-I-M-C-H-I.

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-Well, it's bloody lovely.

-It is really good, isn't it?

0:19:390:19:41

-It's pretty healthy.

-Have you got any more?

-Do you want mine?

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It's mostly cabbage...

0:19:440:19:45

-I tell you what, I'm going to Korea on holiday.

-Yeah!

0:19:470:19:51

It is genuinely delicious, isn't it?

0:19:510:19:53

-It's quite piquant, it's quite hot, it's got a bit of chilli.

-Yeah.

0:19:530:19:56

It's mostly radish and cabbage, and it's very, very simple.

0:19:560:19:59

But there are lots of different...

0:19:590:20:01

-I can feel myself becoming more obedient.

-Yeah.

0:20:010:20:03

Finally! At last.

0:20:090:20:12

-Do you know what, though?

-Tell me.

0:20:120:20:13

-You know when you want a second one...

-Yeah.

0:20:130:20:15

-You don't, really.

-It's just too much. Yeah.

0:20:150:20:19

They eat two million tonnes of this a year.

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-Each?!

-In South Korea on its own.

0:20:220:20:23

I think that would be - even that is too much.

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Some make their own and bury it in a sealed jar over winter.

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Others have special kimchi refrigerators.

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-When you open the door of them, they heat the room up.

-Whooo!

0:20:340:20:39

-It is quite hot.

-It's quite hot, it's quite hot.

-Yeah.

0:20:390:20:44

It's really HO-O-OT!

0:20:440:20:47

In 2010 they had a...

0:20:470:20:49

-KOREAN ACCENT:

-"You like kimchi, ha, ha, ha! You western fool!

0:20:490:20:53

-"Afterburn!"

-No racial stereotyping here, then.

0:20:530:20:56

Just cheap laughs, cheap laughs, Stephen.

0:20:560:21:00

That is just - that's razy lacism, and you know it.

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Um, in 2010 they had a cabbage crop failure

0:21:040:21:07

-and the price rose by 400%.

-Shut up! Oh!

0:21:070:21:10

And they spent millions on the South Korean astronaut,

0:21:100:21:14

who went up into space.

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And...so she could have a kimchi that was bacterially more sound

0:21:150:21:20

and would survive in space better,

0:21:200:21:22

because it was absolutely crucial to her wellbeing as a Korean.

0:21:220:21:25

And indeed, Chung Il-kwon, when he was President,

0:21:250:21:28

during the Vietnam war, said to President Johnson,

0:21:280:21:30

who asked, when he was away, "What do you miss in Korea?"

0:21:300:21:35

He said, to be honest he missed kimchi more than he missed his wife.

0:21:350:21:38

Is Kimchi the name of his mistress?

0:21:380:21:40

Possibly.

0:21:410:21:42

Anyway, for Koreans, kimchi is literally out of this world.

0:21:420:21:47

Now, here's the skull of King Richard III,

0:21:470:21:50

but what can you tell me about his table manners,

0:21:500:21:52

just by looking at it?

0:21:520:21:54

Well, he was very good at eating Toblerone.

0:21:540:21:57

Anything else you can tell?

0:21:580:22:00

What's unusual about his teeth compared to ours?

0:22:000:22:02

-Space for a straw, that would be...

-Space for a straw, yes!

0:22:020:22:06

Notice your teeth, the top row and the bottom row.

0:22:060:22:11

Close your mouth, naturally.

0:22:110:22:13

-Yeah.

-Your top row... Overbite.

0:22:130:22:16

We've all got an overbite.

0:22:160:22:18

Cruelly called by Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally,

0:22:180:22:22

dancing, "white man's overbite."

0:22:220:22:23

But the actual overbite,

0:22:260:22:27

literally like that, is a recent thing in human beings.

0:22:270:22:30

And it comes after forks, because we cut up our food.

0:22:300:22:34

And in the days when we wrenched our food,

0:22:340:22:36

the incisors would get smoothed down more,

0:22:360:22:38

and the teeth would fit exactly.

0:22:380:22:40

And it shows that Richard III didn't use a fork for cutting his food,

0:22:400:22:44

which we know,

0:22:440:22:45

because forks were not used for transferring food to your mouth.

0:22:450:22:50

Right up to Tudor times, you would use...?

0:22:500:22:52

-Your hands.

-Your hands.

0:22:520:22:53

So if we brought up children without knives and forks,

0:22:530:22:55

-they wouldn't develop an overbite?

-No.

-You know what?

0:22:550:22:58

I'm going to try. I'll come back here in 21 years' time.

0:22:580:23:00

-Call me a liar.

-We'll see.

0:23:000:23:01

-It's true.

-With a really resentful-looking boy.

0:23:010:23:04

-I've got twins, so - one I'm going to give a fork.

-Brilliant!

0:23:040:23:07

-Brilliant!

-And one - I'll have the perfect experiment.

0:23:070:23:09

-It is superb. Unethical, but perfect.

-Yeah.

0:23:090:23:12

And you can sort of show this by the difference in civilisations

0:23:120:23:16

who've developed overbites.

0:23:160:23:17

And 1,000 years ago you can see where Chinese aristocratic skulls

0:23:170:23:22

have an overbite, but peasants don't.

0:23:220:23:24

And it's when they started to use chopsticks

0:23:240:23:27

and chop up their food, and then it spread throughout the population.

0:23:270:23:30

So it really does - it sounds weird,

0:23:300:23:32

but this overbite we have is an acquired characteristic

0:23:320:23:34

because of our chopping-up of food.

0:23:340:23:36

You can just tell by looking at skulls.

0:23:360:23:38

Just go through any graveyard, dig people up,

0:23:380:23:40

-and you'll see I'm right, Jason.

-"Stephen Fry told me to do it."

0:23:400:23:43

-Yes, absolutely!

-While I'm chewing on a turtle.

0:23:430:23:45

-"Really bad influence."

-Yeah.

0:23:460:23:49

So, anyway, I'll give you 100 points

0:23:490:23:51

if you can name two traditional Italian breads.

0:23:510:23:53

Oh, so tempting!

0:23:570:23:59

Well, now...ciabatta.

0:23:590:24:01

-KLAXON

-Oh!

0:24:010:24:05

-Er...

-We're already there.

0:24:050:24:07

Ciabatta was invented in 1982, can you believe? It's that recent.

0:24:070:24:11

-No, shut up.

-Yeah, it was an Italian baker

0:24:110:24:14

who was worried about the threat of French baguettes,

0:24:140:24:17

and it's the Italian for, you can redeem yourself if you know?

0:24:170:24:19

Baguette.

0:24:190:24:20

That would be too easy, no. It's not really the shape of it.

0:24:220:24:25

-Handbag?

-Well that's closer, it's...

0:24:250:24:28

-Slipper.

-Yes!

0:24:280:24:29

Brilliant, it was a slipper, yes.

0:24:290:24:31

It was - he was Arnaldo Cavallari, was his name,

0:24:310:24:34

and it was a specific invention, he called it "Ciabatta Polesano",

0:24:340:24:38

Polesine is a part of northern Italy.

0:24:380:24:41

So it really is very recent.

0:24:410:24:43

Some people claim that it was around since the '40s,

0:24:430:24:45

but there doesn't seem to be any proof of this,

0:24:450:24:48

the name doesn't appear before 1982.

0:24:480:24:50

Now, what can you see coming out of your kettle as it boils?

0:24:500:24:54

Vapour.

0:24:540:24:55

-Is the right answer.

-Hurray!

0:24:550:24:59

Not steam.

0:24:590:25:01

-I wasn't going to say steam.

-No, as if you would(!)

0:25:010:25:03

-Because steam is...?

-The stuff that comes out of the kettle.

0:25:030:25:06

Oh! Steam is invisible.

0:25:060:25:08

-It does come out of the kettle...

-Oh, really?

0:25:080:25:10

..but sometimes you see a gap, you know?

0:25:100:25:12

-you get the little gap and then you see the vapour.

-Oh, yeah.

0:25:120:25:14

And the gap is steam, it's an invisible gas.

0:25:140:25:16

And as soon as it cools, even slightly,

0:25:160:25:18

it turns to water vapour, and that's the bit you see.

0:25:180:25:21

We call it steam, but it isn't.

0:25:210:25:23

Steam is actually invisible.

0:25:230:25:24

Isn't that interesting?

0:25:240:25:26

-Very interesting.

-Thank you. So it's "VI".

0:25:260:25:28

Because I tell my children not to eat their food

0:25:280:25:30

till the steam's gone.

0:25:300:25:32

Now what am I going to say?

0:25:320:25:34

But I mean, yeah, in ordinary everyday speech, things steam,

0:25:340:25:38

and "steamy" are... You know, manure steams and...

0:25:380:25:41

Oh, I tell them not to eat manure as well.

0:25:410:25:43

Not till the steam's gone off it.

0:25:440:25:45

I'm glad to hear it.

0:25:450:25:48

Well, we have to end now with a Knick Knack,

0:25:480:25:50

which I sometimes end with.

0:25:500:25:52

This is... Ooh, this is exciting. This is a remarkable substance.

0:25:520:25:57

It's called polyethylene oxide, and it's very gloopy,

0:25:570:26:02

and also it reacts rather excitedly under ultraviolet light.

0:26:020:26:06

And Alan and Victoria, you've got ultraviolet torches

0:26:060:26:08

and you can point them at it.

0:26:080:26:09

I think we might have some ultraviolet light in the studio.

0:26:090:26:12

-Shall I point them now, sir?

-Yes, please do.

0:26:120:26:14

Ooh, look. See?

0:26:140:26:16

-Wow!

-Ooh!

0:26:160:26:18

Now, what I'm going to try and do,

0:26:180:26:19

I'm going to stand up to do this, it's a very remarkable effect.

0:26:190:26:24

The effect is, when you pour it, if I get it at the right angle,

0:26:240:26:29

it pulls itself out of the flask and into here.

0:26:290:26:33

It flows uphill and out and down again. All right.

0:26:330:26:36

There we go. Oh, it's pulling itself up, it's pulling itself up...

0:26:380:26:40

You see what I mean? It's pulling itself up from the bottom.

0:26:400:26:43

If you look at the top one, it's actually flowing uphill there.

0:26:430:26:46

And then it thins out into a little trail of snot.

0:26:460:26:49

I'll try that again, so we'll just get a few takes.

0:26:490:26:51

That's like when...

0:26:510:26:52

It's like when you have a wee after a Berocca, isn't it, that?

0:26:520:26:55

It is!

0:26:550:26:57

It's exactly what it's like.

0:26:570:27:01

Oh, goodness.

0:27:010:27:02

So disgusting. Polyethylene oxide. I don't know what else...

0:27:020:27:05

What's it used for?

0:27:050:27:07

It's a very good masturbatory lubricant.

0:27:070:27:10

Particularly in the dark.

0:27:120:27:14

Yeah.

0:27:140:27:15

All right, we'll try again.

0:27:210:27:22

It's a little bit awkward getting two friends

0:27:220:27:24

-to hold the torch, though.

-Isn't it?

0:27:240:27:26

Yeah. There we go, that's pulling itself up there nicely.

0:27:270:27:30

Excellent, there we go. Phew!

0:27:300:27:33

Thank you.

0:27:340:27:36

And thank you... Thank you, my special ultraviolet helpers.

0:27:360:27:42

Well, on that exciting note, let's go to the scores.

0:27:420:27:47

Oh, my actual goodness.

0:27:470:27:50

It's really remarkable.

0:27:500:27:52

I'm afraid, possibly because he was booby-trapped into it,

0:27:520:27:55

in last place, with -38 is Jason Manford.

0:27:550:27:59

I'm quite happy.

0:27:590:28:01

In a highly creditable third place,

0:28:030:28:05

with -17, is Richard Osman.

0:28:050:28:07

Oh, thank you.

0:28:070:28:09

Which is very impressive.

0:28:090:28:11

And in second place with -7 is Victoria Wood.

0:28:120:28:16

But, scraping into a lead by one point, on -6, is Alan Davies!

0:28:190:28:25

Well. Put that away.

0:28:310:28:32

I got points for eating that food.

0:28:320:28:34

And with thanks to Victoria, Richard, Jason and Alan,

0:28:340:28:37

it's good night!

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